Lebanese Premier League

Lebanese Premier League

Country	Lebanon
Confederation	AFC
Founded	1933 (1933)
Number of teams	12
Levels on pyramid	1
Relegation to	Lebanese Second Division
Domestic cup(s)	Lebanese FA Cup Lebanese Super Cup Lebanese Elite Cup Lebanese Federation Cup
International cup(s)	AFC Cup Arab Champions League
Current champions	Safa
Most championships	Al-Ansar (13 Titles)
TV partners	Al Jadeed Al-Manar
Website	lebanese-goal.com
2012–13

Lebanese Premier League (French: Championnat du Liban de Football / Arabic: الدوري اللبناني لكرة القدم) is the top division of the Federation Libanaise de Football Association football league competitions. It was founded in 1900 and began in 1934 and their confederation is the AFC. There are 12 teams competing but only 10 survive a season which sees two teams getting relegated to the Lebanese Second Division. The two remaining places are taken by the promoted teams from the second highest division. The most successful club in the history of the league is Al-Ansar, topping with 13 league titles while Al-Nejmeh and Homenetmen Beirut have 7 titles. Al-Ansar set a Guinness world record by winning 11 consecutive league titles between 1988 and 1999, a record that has since been surpassed by Skonto FC from Latvia.^[1]

Overview

The Lebanese Premier League's fixtures are based upon home and away fixtures. The points system is the international and most used system:

• Win: 3 points
• Draw: 1 point
• Loss: 0 points
• Entering Administration: 9 points deduction

Ranking structure

The clubs are ranked by points and tie breakers are in the following order:

• Goal difference
• Goals scored
• Head-to-head results
• Disciplinary points

Lebanese Premier League clubs (2013-14)

Beirut

Tyre

Aley

Tripoli

Sidon

Locations of teams in the 2012–13 Lebanese Premier League

Media coverage

Al Jadeed is the official television station designated to broadcast Lebanese Premier League matches.

• Al Jadeed (Domestic Broadcasting) Official Television Station "http://www.aljadeed.tv/LebaneseLeague.html?LeagueId=14"
• Al-Manar (Domestic Broadcasting) Selected Matches

Previous winners

Champions so far are:^[2]

Champions

Topscorers

Season	Top scorer	Club	Goals
1933–34
1934–35
1935–36
1936–37
1937–38
1938–39
1939–40	The championship was not held
1940–41
1941–42
1942–43
1943–44
1944–45
1945–46
1946–47
1947–48
1948–49
1949–50	The championship was not held
1950–51
1951–52	The championship was not held
1952–53	The championship was not held
1953–54
1954–55
1955–56
1956–57
1957–58	The championship was not held
1958–59	The championship was not held
1959–60	The championship was not held
1960–61	Mardek Chabarian	Homenmen Beirut	15
1961–62	The championship was not held
1962–63	Joseph Abou Murad	Racing	18
1963–64	The championship was not held
1964–65	Levon Altonian	Homenetmen Beirut	19
1965–66	The championship was not held
1966–67	Muhaddin Ayatani	Al-Nejmeh	15
1967–68	The championship was not held
1968–69
1969–70	Hani Abdul Fattah	Safa	19
1970–71	The championship was not held
1971–72	The championship was not held
1972–73	Youssef Al Ghoul	Al-Ansar	8
1973–74	The championship was not held
1974–75
1975–76	The championship was not held
1976–77	The championship was not held
1977–78	The championship was not held
1978–79	The championship was not held
1979–80	The championship was not held
1980–81	The championship was not held
1981–82	The championship was not held
1982–83	The championship was not held
1983–84	The championship was not held
1984–85	The championship was not held
1985–86	The championship was not held
1986–87	The championship was not held
1987–88	Fouad Saad	Al-Ansar	6
1988–89	The championship was not held
1989–90
1990–91	Fadi Alloush	Al-Ansar	32
1991–92	Walid Dahrouj	Safa	20
1992–93	Fadi Alloush	Al-Ansar	27
1993–94	Mahmoud Hamoud	Al-Nejmeh	15
1994–95	Vitali Aghassian	Homenmen Beirut	16
1995–96	Assef Khalifa	Al-Nejmeh	19
1996–97	Peter Prospar	Al-Ansar	22
1997–98	Ahmad Jaradi	Al-Nejmeh	13
1998–99	Haitham Zein	Al-Tadamon	15
1999–00	Toninho Santos Sahib Abbas	Al-Ansar Salam Zgharta	14
2000–01	Errol McFarlane	Al-Nejmeh	21
2001–02	Mahmoud Majeed	Shabab Al-Sahel	24
2002–03	Sílvio	Olympic Beirut	18
2003–04	Mohammad Kassas	Al-Nejmeh	22
2004–05	Mohammad Kassas	Al-Nejmeh	21
2005–06	Ali Nasseredine	Al-Nejmeh	17
2006–07	Mohammed Ghaddar	Al-Nejmeh	25
2007–08	Mohammed Ghaddar	Al-Nejmeh	22
2008–09	Salih Sadir	Al-Ahed	27
2009–10	Makhete Diop	Al-Nejmeh	23
2010–11	Hassan Maatouk	Al-Ahed	15
2011–12	Mohamad Haidar	Safa	12
2012–13	Imad Ghaddar	Shabab Al-Ghazieh	20

References

External links

• Lebanese Premier League at FIFA website

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